The company announced a shakeup of Google Health earlier that summer, saying it would focus more on clinical and regulatory solutions and less on consumer-facing offerings. It planned to restructure the division into three groups and transfer 130 employees from Google Health to other teams within its company, including its search division and Fitbit, which it acquired in January for $2.1 billion. This transfer of nearly 20% of its staff brought its employee numbers down from about 700 to 570.

The three groups included one focused on clinical work, another on Health AI, and a third being a collaboration between the clinical teams from Fitbit and Google Fit divisions that would focus on managing regulatory, clinical and equity issues within Google Health, the Fitbit team and other companies belonging to Google Health.


More recently, the company announced that doctors who make a Google Business profile can specify what health insurance they accept and what languages are spoken at their offices, with the information appearing to people searching for a doctor on the search engine.

Google plans to release the software development kit in the next few months.

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